Comments by "diehardcat" (@diehardcat) on "How Communism Nearly Starved Vietnam" video.

  1. This is just mindlessly repeating stupid cheap ass Cold War propaganda. First, there was a system that had actually caused 2 million deaths from hunger in Vietnam, not just near death, and it was colonialism which is capitalism, not communism. The communists were the ones who saved the population from that famine caused by capitalism in 1945! Second, the Vietnamese communists party has been running Vietnam but that doesn't mean Vietnam has ever been living under communism. Those are two different things that doesn't necessarily/automatically go hand in hand. Even the Soviet Union in all of its 70 years plus of existence had ever claimed that it had reached and lived under communism! There's totally no private ownership of means of production under communism, but the land reform program in the 1950s in Vietnam had actually increased private ownership because it redistributed lands from a few local landlords, the French colonists, and the Catholic church who had been robbing the people blind for decades, to the mass! That's how the communists could get support from the vast majority of Vietnamese literately overnight to win against superpowers! The hardship after the Vietnam War was caused primarily by the coward total blockade, economic sanctions from the west. In another word, it was also caused by capitalism! Vietnam also was forced into two wars to defend herself against the Khmer Rouge and China backed by the US for a decade. She had to feed the Cambodian population after the disposal of the Pol Pot regime because the west also imposed sanction against Cambodia too for being liberated by Vietnam! Despite all that, there were NO deaths by hunger in Vietnam or Cambodia in that period. So if anything it could only proved the communists were actually really good at running the country! There are mass hunger and millions of homeless people right now in the US despite the fact that it's the 'richest country in the world' that has never faced any hardship whatsoever! So there is something really sick about capitalism that you need to talk about right there!
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  2.  @jlrva3864  Those are just two phenomena/events that you apparently, absolutely have no clues about the causes. You automatically blame it on the communists because you’re brainwashed!
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  3.  @jlrva3864  1. They were 90% traitors who served the French for the whole time they had been there and their family. The fact that the communists didn't execute them all for their crimes against the country proves they were too nice! The rest of the people who left was fooled by the US 'propaganda'. You yourself is also fooled by the US propaganda, talking like the communists had no support! If they have no popular support, how can they defeat the French, and Americans?! 2. 90% of them were the same people mentioned above and their next generation! They went South in 1954-55 and the US used them as the core support for the Saigon puppet regime that it created in 1955! They were the brainwashed hardcore anti communist. They was so afraid of paying for their crimes against the communists and the country that's how they ran out of the country that way.
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  4.  @jlrva3864  1. They were 90% traitors who served the French for the whole time they had been there and their family. The fact that the communists didn't execute them all for their crimes against the country proves they were too nice! The rest of the people who left was fooled by the US 'propaganda'. You yourself is also fooled by the US propaganda, talking like the communists had no support! If they have no popular support, how can they defeat the French, and Americans?!
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  5. 2. 90% of them were the same people mentioned above and their next generation! They went South in 1954-55 and the US used them as the core support for the Saigon puppet regime that it created in 1955! They were the brainwashed hardcore anti communist. They was so afraid of paying for their crimes against the communists and the country that's how they ran out of the country that way.
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